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THE HOLY BIBLE –is the most up to date book you can read. It records tomorrow’s news today. The most published and read, yet less understand the book in the world.

KNOWLEDGE:

The supreme creator having supreme intelligence wisdom and love to think out and all life upon it have left human being in ignorance of his purpose. The purpose of their being here and the laws that would bring them the peace, happiness, joy, and everything good that men and women have been striving to attain since the beginning.

God almighty made his all-important truth accessible to all mankind. He committed his treasure house of basic knowledge to writing. He revealed that knowledge in the HOLY BIBLE. The very foundation of knowledge.His instruction book for mankind, Yet almost no one has ever found the answer that has so plainly written there. GODS divine revelation of basic needed knowledge that man is not capable of finding out for himself by any others means. GOD equipped human being with the powers and abilities to discover and use the laws of science.

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But absolutely no tools or instrument of science can ever tell you if there is life after death, the purpose of you being alive, where you are going or the way to a happy, abundant and peaceful life here and now. Our scientists, our world leaders, and our statesmen failed to tell us the answer or to lead us into the universally desired peace with happiness and abundant living.

GOD wants every one of us to be happy and to enjoy an interesting life to the very full every second of it. Once we begin to understand the BIBLE, we shall come to find it the fascinating, the most interesting, as well as the most profitable and enjoyable study of our lives.

Is Your Mind Sabotaging Your Relationship with God?

Think about it! How often do you just stop thinking? Try it for one minute. Even when we’re trying to spend time with God, we’re thinking about what we need to do next. These thoughts cause us to rush through our devotional time or scripture reading. Our mind has us convinced that we’re going to miss out on something if we don’t hurry it up. But just like we need to take time to relax our bodies, if we are to have ongoing mental health and well-being we need to spend time relaxing (and renewing) our minds as well.

According to many scriptures in the Bible, God speaks to his children with a still, small voice. God isn’t going to scream at you or cause lightning to strike to make you listen to Him. No, instead, he’s going to wait until you become still and quiet. Psalms 46:10 tells us to “Be still and know God.” It’s implying that it’s through our stillness that our relationship with God becomes more intimate.

Doing Versus Being

Do you remember the story of Mary and Martha? In Luke 10, Jesus was invited to Martha’s home for dinner. Martha had chosen to serve Jesus by busily preparing her home for his comfort, yet, her sister Mary sat at Jesus' feet to learn from him. The text goes on to say that Martha got upset because Mary wasn’t helping her and she wanted Jesus to scold her. However, Jesus reprimands Martha and said “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed.

Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her. Most of us tend to be more like Martha than Mary. Martha’s spend most of their time doing for Jesus (having meetings, attending services, singing in the choir, heading committees, making a living, etc) and not enough time just abiding (dwelling) in his presence, meditating, being still enough to listen, and being filled up by his words.

Jesus said it is only through abiding that we bear much fruit. Christian Meditation is a useful tool to assist believers in getting still before God so that they can build a relationship not based on doing, but on abiding. Abiding promotes intimacy. Intimacy involves time. It involves not only listening but getting to know the person for whom we have affections.

Saint John 15:4 declares, “Abide in me and I will abide in you.” Verse 7 says, “if you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.” That means we must integrate dwelling with Christ by embracing his word. The abiding build relationship and the Word of God bring transformation. It also brings blessings our way. Just imagine the effect on the world if Christians actually took the time to linger in God’s presence!

Your Mind is Like a Garden

The Bible says, you can’t put new wine into old wine bottles or you’ll ruin the new wine! If you have corrupted thinking, you’ve got to get rid of it before you can embrace the new truth. Here is another example. Remember the parable of the sower? Your mind is like the soil in a garden. Imagine a garden plot filled with weeds, worms, snails, and the like. You take a perfectly healthy plant and place it in the middle of that garden plot. What’s going to happen to it? Is it going to continue to grow and thrive?

Absolutely not! Before long the weeds and insects are going to devour it and suck out all its nutrients. That is the same thing that happens when we try and plant new truth, God’s truth, in a mind that is tainted with faulty mindsets, past conditioning, and falsehoods. Eventually, the weeds are going to take over again.

Therefore, before we can truly embrace God’s truth we need to identify and get rid of the weeds planted in our minds: the negative thoughts and debilitating mindsets that we’ve accepted as truth.  They are choking out the word of God and causing our Christian walk to be unfruitful.

If you don’t do anything about your mental garden, your mind and spirit will continue to war against each other. This is usually an unconscious pattern. For example, God’s word will tell you to give to receive, but your mind constantly tells you to hold on to everything you’ve got. Your mind tells you to always get the last word, but God says to turn the other cheek and a soft answer calms the situation. Again, your mind tells you to work hard and strive for success, yet the Bible says, seek God’s kingdom first and everything you need will be added unto you.

If you don’t address the false thinking that contradicts God’s word, you’ll continue to be what the Bible calls “double-minded” and because we continue to waiver in our desires and beliefs, we can’t receive anything from God.

It was practicing meditation integrated with the scriptures that helped me to overcome years of depression. Christ-centered meditation helped me to become still enough so that I could observe what was really going on in my mind. Until then, my mind was controlling my thoughts and ultimately my behavior. It took me being still to even realize it. But once I recognized the thoughts I was thinking I was able to challenge, alter, or eliminate them altogether.

Ongoing and consistent meditation taught me how to control my thoughts instead of allowing them to control me. We can’t change what we don’t see or acknowledge. I call it unconscious living. It’s when we continue to live on autopilot, doing the same things, the same ways without really considering whether these behaviors are working for us anymore. Our greatest inspirations and truths come during times of quietness, stillness, openness, and reflection- all components of meditation.

Ten benefits of Biblical meditation:

Relax and Quiet Your Mind

Turn off Compulsive Thinking

Understand the Scriptures More Fully

Live with More Balance in your Life Hear the Voice of God More Clearly

Live in the Present Moment

Abide in God’s Presence

Create a Greater Intimacy with God

Reduce or Eliminate Toxic Emotions like Stress, Anger, and Worry.

Observe the Thoughts You Think So You Can Challenge and Eliminate Them

Rhonda Jones, MA is the author of 23 Biblical meditation and affirmation Cds and the creator of the awarding-winning website, http://www.thechristianmeditator.com. Visit her website to learn more about Christian meditation and its benefits and subscribe to Free Daily Christian Meditations.



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God Command Tax and Tithes to Save us Financial Worries

God Command Tax and TithesHow could we have so much, yet be so unhappy? Society today has more toys and conveniences than even the richest king of antiquity ever dreamed of. Ice cubes, Ipods, eyeglasses, online banking, vacation in other part of the world, yet ironically, financial worries plaque almost everyone. It just doesn’t make sense. We probably never realized this before. But money really isn’t ours.

The bills in our wallet, the digits in our checking accounts, cars, houses, real state, none of it belongs to us.

There are two prior claims to our money.

Tax to Government-the dreaded and universally despised taxman has a claim to our money. In fact, it is the requirement of every citizen to pay taxes he or she owes to our government. God commands it and given our ruler their authority to levy taxes. Our government whether just or unjust had the authority to collect taxes. Obey established tax laws no matter how unfair they may seem, never cheat the system.

“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except God and those that exist have been instituted by God.”(Romans 13:1)

Tithes to God- we may ask at what authority can God claim a tenth of our income. God is the creator of the universe. As such; he owns everything in the world. Our maker who created the air we breathe and the water we drink, tells us it belongs to him-not us. Where does wealth really come from? All wealth ultimately comes from the ground and the entire earth beneath it.

The capacity to come up with ideas and the energy we expend during your thinking processes were created by God. He has reserved for his use only 10 percent of our income. After we have been honest in paying Gods 10 percent to his chosen representative. Our nineteenth actually does not belong to us until we have paid God his tenth. Never think to give tithes. We pay tithes; it’s not ours to give. When a person fails to pay his taxes, he has broken man’s law and comes under the penalty, probably jail. Those who break Gods law by refusing to pay his tithes come under financial and spiritual penalties-financial curses for disobeying God.

If we wholeheartedly study and implement god’s most important law on managing our finances we will experience true prosperity-guaranted.It is time tested and proven way to be confident. Content and at peace. We can be free of financial worries.

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U.S. Attorney General Ignites the Race Bomb

When President Obama was campaigning for his office, he promised to bring the races together. However, his attorney general is deeply dividing Ignites the Race Bomb America as Mr. Obama remains silent. Eric Holder, the attorney general, was recently interviewed about the Operation Fast and Furious debacle, which has become one of the worst government scandals in many years. His response to criticism of that scandal was to hurl a racist bomb, worse than the scandal itself.

Let me give you a little background on Operation Fast and Furious, then I will discuss his dangerous reaction to the critics. Here is what Joel Hilliker wrote on theTrumpet.com, Nov. 2, 2011: “Last year, Mexican law enforcement, neck-deep in a war with drug cartels, noticed a strange trend and started documenting it. The data confirmed their suspicions: An alarming number of guns turning up at violent crime scenes were being traced to gun dealers in Arizona. They talked to the agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives who were assigned to Mexico, who checked into it. “Soon the scandalous truth came out. It was so shocking that the agents couldn’t believe it.

When it proved out, they were profoundly embarrassed about their country. They were deeply apologetic to their Mexican counterparts. They scrambled to distance themselves from what had happened. ‘I hope they [the Mexican police] understand that this was kept secret from most of the time, including me and my colleagues in Mexico,’ said Darren Gil, the attaché to Mexico. …

“Between September 2009 and December 2010, U.S. authorities dumbly watched—sometimes on a live video feed in Washington—as ‘straw buyers’ patronized Phoenix-area gun stores. It’s a felony to buy weapons for someone else, but they knew that’s exactly what these people—a total of 20 of them—were doing. These individuals purchased an arsenal of over 2,000 assault weapons, sniper rifles, semi-automatic pistols, and other deadly firearms. And frustrated agents were ordered to just let the weapons go as they then crossed the border into Mexico.

“Supposedly, the plan was that this flow of gun traffic would lead authorities to drug cartel honchos.” However, little or no effort was made to track the movement of guns. Since the operation began, one American border guard and hundreds of Mexicans have been killed with those guns! Mexican leaders knew nothing about this massively violent crime against their country. Now Congress is investigating this international scandal. The Republican critics have been aggressive in their questioning of Eric Holder, as they should be. They have been met with a vast cover-up, which is also a high crime.

However, it gets a lot worse! The Holder Interview, Here is what the New York Times wrote Dec. 17, 2011, concerning an interview with the attorney general: “Mr. Holder contended that many of his … critics—not only elected Republicans but also a broader universe of conservative commentators and bloggers—were … playing ‘Washington gotcha’ games, portraying them as frequently ‘conflating things, conveniently leaving some stuff out, construing things to make it seem not quite what it was’ to paint him and other department figures in the worst possible light.

“Of that group of critics, Mr. Holder said he believed that a few—the ‘more extreme segment’—were motivated by animus against Mr. Obama and that he served as a stand-in for him. ‘This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,’ he said, ‘both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American’” (emphasis added). He is viciously accusing some elected Republicans as being racists for investigating and criticizing this scandal of far-reaching magnitude.

These Republicans are supposedly motivated to do this because Eric Holder and President Obama are African-Americans. If Eric Holder has this warped racist view of some American political leaders, what does he think of many white Americans? The big issue is, what motivates the attorney general to make this racist charge? Mr. Obama has expressed no disagreement with what the attorney general has said and done regarding Operation Fast and Furious. Mr. Obama is responsible and should be held accountable for what his attorney general does. The president’s silence is deafening! And extremely dangerous!

He must agree with what his attorney general said. Does his silence also indicate that he and Eric Holder were both involved in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal? If not, why such a deadly racist reaction from his attorney general? Consequences, Racist charges against Republicans are doing frightening damage to our race relations. Unless stopped, it must lead to a racial explosion, perhaps worse than the damage of a nuclear bomb, of course, there is some racism in both blacks and whites, and we don’t take sides. But this is an extremely serious issue, and it’s coming from the highest officials in government.

That makes it 10,000 times worse. The president says nothing as his attorney general builds race hatred between whites and African-Americans. Most of the media remain silent as well, especially about Mr. Holder’s racist remark to the New York Times. Apparently, it is because they agree or fear being labeled racist. So the president and attorney general feel confident they can get away with this outrage. Republican racism has become the battle cry of the radical left—led by the president and his attorney general! Mostly that charge is untrue.

But many people are going to believe it is true and act accordingly. As the economy gets worse and people’s emotions become more heated, violent race riots are going to burst on the scene in our large cities. Do we think such hateful racist statements have no consequences? Like, little children, the radical left makes these hateful statements and doesn’t even think of the consequences—which are going to be horrendous. Bible prophecy says so, but even common sense alone should tell us that! This is not President Obama bringing us together as he pledged to do in his presidential campaign.

He is leading the way into violent divisions. And I do mean violent! If you seriously criticize the attorney general or the president, radicals often label you racist. That means they could hang the racist charge on my group—on your group—and apparently, the media would be virtually silent. Hateful racist statements inevitably lead to violent racist acts I repeat, Mr. Holder’s response to critics of Operation Fast and Furious is far worse than the scandal itself! Far worse The Bible says that God is love.

The supreme example of that love was Christ dying for all of us (John 3:16). Our politics are often filled with hatred. So we can’t call this approach Christian or biblical. If we followed Christ’s example, we would be willing to die for our fellow man, not do violence to him! Let’s not forget that Eric Holder is the chief law officer of America He would not condemn or prosecute Black Panthers for intimidating voters in the presidential election. It was clearly a constitutional crime. Again the president remained silent about Eric Holder’s decision to not prosecute racist crimes committed by black Americans.

Our attorney general condemns some Republican critics of his Fast and Furious scandal who are just doing their job, but he won’t condemn the Black Panthers’ crime against our constitution—the law of the land! How do Eric Holder’s words and deeds influence blacks who lean toward the Black Panthers? Or whites who lean toward the Ku Klux Klan? Race hatred is building fast. I believe that the radical left will do almost anything to cling to power in this coming election. Will we see some violent racial turmoil begin at that time? I believe it is very likely! All we need is another Rodney King incident to set off race riots in our cities.

The Whole Head Is Sick The Philadelphia Church of God doesn’t take sides. We teach God’s truth—His prophecies. The Prophet Isaiah tells us about the terrible times just before Christ returns in the “last days” (Isaiah 2:2). His book was written specifically for this end time (Isaiah 30:1-9). “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? Ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint” (Isaiah 1:4-5). This is talking mainly about the United States, Britain and the Jews in the Middle East.

“The whole head is sick.” God is saying the power structure (primarily white) that leads these nations of Israel is sick! And the “whole heart faint.” Neither the leaders nor their followers have the will or the strength to get to the roots of race riots or terrorist attacks and solve them once and for all (see Daniel 12:9; 9:13; and Leviticus 26:19). Their “heart” is so weak and unhealthy that the governmental system is about to “faint,” or collapse! “From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers” (Isaiah 1:6-7). “Your cities are burned”! And who does it? “Strangers [Gentiles] devour it in your presence”! This is a terrifying passage! Because of the sin these nations of Israel—mainly America and Britain—are laden with, and because of the weakness of our leaders, we will experience desolation and burning—all at the hands of “strangers.” In other words, race riots and terrorism are going to get much worse.

(If you don’t understand who the nations of Israel are, request our book The United States and Britain in Prophecy. All of our literature is free.) More and more, racial tensions are boiling to the surface in the U.S. and Britain. In February of 2011, 50 Minnesota youths entered a store, assaulted a clerk, and looted the stock. In April, a mob of 20 entered a Washington, d.c., store, grabbed about $20,000 worth of merchandise and fled. In May, a group of New York teenagers carried out a vicious attack on a restaurant. Many reports have emerged of Chicago hoodlums assaulting people unprovoked, and the videos that surface show the attacks to be, almost without exception, black on white. In June, a group of white Mississippi youths brutally beat and killed a black man.

During the Fourth of July celebration in Milwaukee, 60 young black Americans beat and robbed a small group that had been watching fireworks. Hours earlier, the same mob had robbed a convenience store, maybe two. In late July, 20 to 30 young Philadelphians beat and robbed bystanders. In August, hundreds of black youths swarmed into a Wisconsin parking lot, assaulting white fairgoers, smashing car windows, and beating passersby and police officers. The same month, across the Atlantic, Tottenham police officers shot and killed an apparently armed black man, prompting young people of all ethnicities to “demand justice” throughout London by smashing windows, torching businesses and homes, fighting police, stealing merchandise, assaulting citizens and even murdering people.

You watch: These events are going to become more and more common and destructive. Bible prophecy says so! Remember the Los Angeles riots in May 1992? They were some of the deadliest in U.S. history: Close to 60 people died in the violence. The property damage was estimated at $1 billion. This is just one example of the destructive potential of race riots and burning. Much of that cost was goods stolen by the looters. Some 40,000 jobs were lost because of the rioting. The Los Angeles police and National Guard did virtually nothing—rewarding the rioters with stolen goods and an opportunity to commit violence—even murder! Such a lack of forceful intervention greatly encourages other angry minorities to riot elsewhere! This is the truth that almost no one wants to admit or face.

Ezekiel’s Prophecy “The third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee, and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them” (Ezekiel 5:12). Remember, ancient Israel never received Ezekiel’s message. These prophecies in Ezekiel are for the end time. (Our booklet on Ezekiel fully explains these statements; request a free copy.) Notice that pestilence is mentioned first. At one time, we thought the pestilence would be disease resulting from the famine. In this case, the pestilence is actually the leading cause of the famine!

The word pestilence just means destruction or death (see the Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon). One definition of the root word is “to lay snares, to plot against, to destroy.” So this pestilence could be a plague of violence or burning—not necessarily a physical disease at all! It can be defined as a plague of violence or rioting—such as the Los Angeles riots in 1992 or the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks! Why would the first third be burned with fire (verse 2), if it refers to a disease epidemic? The pestilence, or plague of violence, will cause many health problems that lead to famine. Sewage disposal will be disrupted. Gas lines will be broken. Jobs will be lost. Society will unravel and the collective panic will bring a stock market disaster! It will get so bad that violence and famine will take millions of lives!

The Los Angeles rioting was just a type of what is going to happen to major cities in the whole nation! It is a stark prophecy of our future! Terrorist attacks, rioting, and burning are the main thrust of the pestilence mentioned in Ezekiel 5. And this rioting will spread to other Israelite nations! God will get our attention one way or another. The worse the violence and burning become, the worse the famine will get. The worse the famine becomes, the more intensive the violence will get. It becomes a vicious cycle. The seeds of this future calamity have already been sown. The government has lost control. There is a breakdown of law and order. When the riots in Los Angeles were at their peak, government authorities asked black sports stars and other leading blacks to plead with their people to stop the rioting.

There was virtually no show of governmental force. In the future, when this violence spreads, will this be our main hope for peace? How pathetic! We are getting dangerously close to social anarchy and chaos! It was the Rodney King court case, in which white policemen were acquitted of using excessive force in arresting a black man, that triggered the L.A. violence. Since then, there have been several more highly publicized cases of police acting against minorities, particularly in large cities like Los Angeles and New York. Serious rioting in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Bradford, England, in 2001 were also sparked by racial incidents.

The public outcry against a strong government response has been intense and sustained. Now, as a result, the police act, even more than they have feared in the past. Many policemen only feel secure if they do almost nothing. Other authorities also to act, thinking riots may be ignited in other cities. Our government is paralyzed by fear. The “whole heart” is “faint”! We no longer have control of our cities. U.S. citizens already have 200 million guns. As a result of future race riots, more guns will be sold. The people see that our government won’t protect them—and they don’t trust God to protect them either! Many think the Rodney King affair was the only reason for the 1992 rioting. That is not so.

The reaction to such a jury decision made 30 or 40 years earlier in the U.S. would still have been controlled by the police and National Guard. Trying to negotiate peace without using some force only encourages a certain criminal element in our society to riot more. Many blacks want peace, but often they have little control of the situation themselves. After the King verdict, a caravan of blacks in L.A. was going from one area to another throwing firebombs and doing much of the burning. The verdict became their excuse for defying the law. Many black people had their own property destroyed by such criminals.

Getting to know the true God is a dominant theme in the book of Ezekiel. The people of this world have many different ideas of who and what God is. But their words and actions prove they don’t know God. They must suffer and suffer until they stop rejecting God’s message. In a few short years, Ezekiel prophesied, the whole world shall come to know God! That is where everything is leading. This world is about to know God for the first time ever. (Note such verses as Ezekiel 6:7, 10; 12:15, 20; 16:62; 34:27; 37:13-14.) Before that happens to this world, God says His end-time very elect will send out a warning message.

They will declare the book of Ezekiel in its entirety, and help leads the world to get to know the true, living God. There is nothing more thrilling than truly knowing God! Racism is about to disappear from this planet forever! Racism is an issue Americans fear to face. But racism is about to violently explode. The good news is that it will lead directly to the end of racism forever. By Gerald Flurry From the March 2012 Trumpet Print Edition »Image by www.thetrumpet.com


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